Supporting queer cultural diversity is a keyway of reducing discrimination and prejudice. Queer cultural diversity is present by celebrating cultural practices from queer community, fostering inclusiveness in society, and working environments, respecting, and learning the cultural practices of others, and reducing barriers that may hinder the diversification of culture across societies.

Advocating for the rights, empowerment, and visibility of queer, dissident, and LGBTQ+ communities in Bolivia

Celebrating Cuir Culture in Public Spaces is a festival that promotes expression and social integration through innovative proposals that seek to make queer/cuir realities visible in Bolivia and the region. Organised by queer individuals, it builds the "cuir" category as an organizing principle, collaborating with cuir artists and allies.

The project aims to expand and generate dialogues that foster social inclusion, while respecting and learning from each other's cultural practices and reducing barriers that may hinder the diversification of culture in societies facing challenges such as prejudice, discrimination, cultural conflicts, stereotypes, and sectarianism.

Celebrating Cuir Culture in Public Spaces serves as a channel for expression, expansion, education, enjoyment, strengthening bonds, weaving new connections, complicity, hugs, and celebration through art and culture, which is a necessary place of resistance, made possible by the historical struggles and achievements of our communities.

A vital site of resistance, the project was brought into existence through the collective struggles of local communities and supportive institutions. Its ambition is to offer queer artists a platform for education, bonding, new connections, complicity and encounters.

The main goal of the project is to highlight and promote the importance of artistic and social proposals advocating for the rights, empowerment, and visibility of queer, dissident, or LGBTQ+ communities through the project. This includes celebrating achievements as well as combating discrimination, violence, and hate crimes, while also raising awareness and promoting inclusion in society, addressing historical debts.

Celebrating Cuir Culture in Public Spaces, taking place in October 2024, will programme a variety of activities, including laboratories, film debates, performances, exhibitions and installations, fashion shows and fairs.

Alignment with UN Sustainable Development Goals

• SDG 4 - Quality education: The planned educational programmes and cultural awareness activities can promote inclusive and equitable education, as well as foster intercultural learning and global understanding.
• SDG 8 - Decent work and economic growth: Supporting local artists, artisans, and cultural workers can contribute to promoting decent employment and economic growth in local communities.
• SDG 10 - Reduced inequalities: The project, celebrating and promoting cultural diversity can contribute to reducing inequalities by recognising and valuing different cultural identities and traditions.
• SDG 11 - Sustainable cities and communities: Conservation of cultural heritage and revitalization of urban spaces can contribute to creating more inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable cities and communities.
• SDG 17 - Partnerships for the goals: The project fostering collaboration among different actors, such as cultural institutions, local governments, NGOs, and the private sector, can contribute to strengthening the partnerships necessary to achieve the SDGs.